Media

Zambia’s press freedom record continues on a downward spiral with a government decision to shut down some independent broadcasting houses on Monday 22nd August, 2016 on allegations of unprofessional conduct in the pre-election and post-election period. This comes a few months after the biggest independent newspaper, The Post which was very critical of the ruling party

Fridays are the day when – if I happen to walk into a store that sells newspapers – I’ll often cast a wistful gaze at the stack of Mail & Guardian (M&G) papers delivered that morning, noting that my primary impulse would sooner be to straighten the stack rather than to buy a copy. This

On 25th February at the Lagos Social Media Week, BBC Africa Debate held a conversation that was asking: Should Social Media be regulated? Now, that caught me unawares –but I also thought to myself – how timely. Here is why: 18 February 2016 saw Uganda go to the polls for the general election. On Election

Hungarian-born American publisher Joseph Pulitzer noticed that “there is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle which does not live by secrecy.” He further observed: “get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or

Fatuma Abdulahi is a Somali journalist whose family left their home country in the early 90s following the instability after the collapse of the Siad Barre government. Abdulahi returned to the continent, working first in Sierra Leone. She has been here for eight years, choosing to stay because this is “the place that I belong

We reporters in Zambia must start researching, we need to learn about health conditions. These fake stories we write about people "crashlanding" one will be sued and lose the case in court. These old people we find naked suffer from mental problems while others have dementia.

These prices can’t explain how much/ what one can do with that monthly data bundle. For most folks it doesn’t even last a month anyway - forcing them to use very limited internet in the name of saving bundle. See the figures here: kainjasite.wordpress…twitter.com/mynassah…

Eriterians and South Sudanese are fleeing from dictatorship and genocide but are being sent to Rwanda and Uganda as if these are the best countries in Africa that can provide standards that would give hope these refugees. From One dictatorship to another.

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